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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30
A Young VentrilOQuist.

A little Boston boy who was taken to
the entertainment of a ventriloquist some
time ago, and who was a close observer
of the performers modus operandi, ac-
companied his parents last week to his
fathers native town, and among the
places visited during their rural soiourn
was the country cemetery, where sleep
the progenitors of his paternal parent.
The latter pointed out to the child GER
tain mound, saying: "There, dear, is the
grave of your grandfather. The little
fellow gazed curiously at the place of
sepulture for a moment, and then, seized
by sudden idea, stopped down, and rap
ping on the tombstone, said: 'Grandpa,
are you down there?" following it up
with self supplied Eyes" in as deep and
cultural tone as his little throat could
make vocal. docs you want to come
up?" he resumed in his natural pitch of
voice, and again dropping to the lower
tone answered his own query with bass
and hollow NO" The parents, greatly
shocked, cut short further ventriloquial
efforts on the part of the too precocious
child. Boston Budget.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30
Facts About London.

About twenty eight miles of new streets
are laid out each year; about 5000 houses
are erected yearly; about 500,0 houses
are already erected; about 10000 strang-
ers enter the city each day; about 1876
persons are added daily to the popula-
ton; about 100, 900 foreigners live in the
city; about 1870, 900 paupers and beggars
infest the city; about 10000 police keep
order; about 1000 clergymen hold forth
every Sunday; about 5000 horses die
every week; and, it is said, about 700, 900
cats enliven the moonlight nights. Pub
lie Opinion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

That new conditions create new types and
new diseases Is well known fact in physi-
ology. One of the latest to develop in Wash
ington is typewriter paralysis" This dis
ease doesn't attack the machine, as the name
given to it might imply, but the bright eyed
young woman who runs it, With an evil
dence of acute discrimination and good taste
hardly to be expected in one so new, it de-
votes its attention to- the aforesaid young
woman, and leaves the machine to the tender
mercies of Suffering" skipping" slip
ping and all the other failings to which its
cast iron flesh is heir. Several of the expert
typewriters in the departments tell me that
they are victims of the new tangled disease
1t first appears in their slender wrists If
their wrists are not slender-which of course
is the exception rather than the rule-it de-
velops there just the same. The right wrist
succumbs first as that is also used in writ
ing with the pen. The hand is useless for
while and throbs with pains that shoot up
into the wrist and forearm. Sometimes it
results in partial paralysis of the side 1t
seems to differ in this from the ordinary tele-
graphers paralysis, which, | am told, inter
feres with the use of the hand for telegraph
ing only, and leaves its skin in other ways
unimpaired. York Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30
TELLING THE STORY.
AN HOUR WITH THE PACIFIC
RAILROAD COMMISSION.

What an Artist and "A Writer for This
Paper Found to Interest Our Readers.
How G. p. Huntington Looks When
Testifying.
Everybody in the country who is interested
In politics and railroads and who is notD is
also interested in the congressional Pacific
railway commission, and the examination of
the ingenious witness and experienced enter
priser, c. p. Huntington. The scene of the in
quiry-in the Aston building, Pine street, New
York-is an attractive one to artists and re-
porters, and they have plenty of material for
the exercise of their talents and the earning
of shekels in recording the words and atti-
tudes of Mr.. Huntington and his co-witness,
Gen. Dodge, the honorable gentlemen who
compose the commission, and the slightly
waspish gentleman who acts as counsel for
the Central Pacific. Conspicuous for size
and solid dignity is the Hon. David 7. Lit
tier, Of Springfield, Ills, now representing
Abraham Lincoln's old district. He is evil
IDENTIFY a man of weight-not less than 200
pounds, anyhow. His hair is just gray
enough in places to look nice, and dark
enough elsewhere to shade his broad, ruddy
face. His dark gray eyes beam with an en-
couraging smile, and as he leans back In his
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

earnest eye-while his nose is neither equi-
line, Grecian, Roman nor Hebrew, but a
straight, composite, Yankee nose--one might
say it was in the style of the Connecticut
renaissance Other notable figures In the
room are those Of A. A. Cohen, Esq, attor-
ney for the Central Pacific, and Judge Dill
lon, the same for the Union Pacific Like all
the other participants they are physically
solid, wholesome looking men. Indeed, the
work these men are engaged in, especially
the railroaders, is not the sort of task for
which slim little men are selected. A look
at this commission, with the attorneys and
witnesses, is pleasing proof that Americans
are in no wise degenerated from the old
Aryan stock
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

of his Iowa soldiers, is sadly bowed, and
as he leaned forward to catch the words of
the witness, his hand held to his good ear" in
dictated that that sense too was failing. Some
thing in Mr.. Huntingtons testimony seemed
to amuse the general hugely; he repressed
his laughter with difficulty, and in the most
pathetic portions grew red in the face and
was almost convulsed. But his own turn
came next and he was extremely grave, an
suering all Mr.. Anderson's questions promptly
and with the explicit directness of the
engineer. Physically he is u striking con-
trast to Mr. Huntington. The latters ply
sique suggests immense reserve power; his
eye is of a peculiar gray-a deep, terribly
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

become one OF the SIR CHARLES RUSSELL.
principal figures of the northern circuit,
and at the age of 30 he had attained the
silk gown of queens counsel. He en-
tered public life in the parliament of 1850
as Liberal for the small Irish borough
of Dundalk, but was deferred from taking
an active part by the conflict between the
anti-Natonalist attitude of his party and his
own Irish sympathies. When. in the succeed
ing parliament, Gladstone, now convert to
home rule, formed his memorable home rule
ministry, Russell was brought into it as
attorney general. He became from the out
set one of the four or five chief personages
of that cabinet, as he will be of the new one
should Mi. Gladstone be again called to
power
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30
A PALACE OF GOLD.
King Corn and His Temple In the
West.

The land of corn is the west. Not the corn
of Egypt, but Indian corn, known to the
tyro in geography as "maize" No waiter in
a New York restaurant would know what
you meant If you asked for corn griddle
cakes. Indian meal is the name by which he
knows cornmeal The writer once asked a
waiter, who was bringing a plate of nice
brown cakes, if they were Of cornmeal. "No,
sir; they are Indian" was his reply. But
everywhere west of the Alleghenies every
waiter knows all about corn. Among people
who have never breathed western air the idea
obtains that the west is simply a gigantic
cornfeld, with Indians lurking suspiciously
between the rows and buffalo ranging de-
family around its edges. Perhaps they get
their idea from "The Hoosier Schoolmaster. J"
Mrs. Means thought 1t the part Of wisdom to
"buy more land to raise more corn to feed
more hogs"
Heretofore the west has raised its corn as a
matter of course and made no parade about
it. Now it has made up its mind that its
corn is a thing to be proud of, and that it is
quite time to pay it some honor, since it is its
special source of wealth and commercial
strength. Somebody says that after the citi-
zens Of the west began to realize how mighty
q factor in civilization was their corn, 1.-THE
matter became important at once, and the
plain, yellow ear of corn has now the respect
of thousands Of people who never gave it
more than passing thought before"
Sioux City, Neb., is alive to it, if you
please. That city is going to have corn ju-
bilee, commencing Oct. 8 and ending Oct. s.
And its great feature will be corn palace
an allegorical temple of Ceres-a marvellous
creation, as the picture represents, created
out of shining, simon pure yellow corn. At
least it will be mostly of the yellow corn
Wheat and other cereals will be used as
trimmings
In Sioux City corn is king, and the Corn
Palace jubilee will undoubtedly establish his
reign more securely and award him the hon.
age which is his due.
Eyes. corn is king" says the voice of the
west, "and for twenty-five years his kingdom
has been growing. He has done good deeds;
he has endeared himself to the hearts of his
people. He has fed them with bread and
with meat; he has made some rich, and he
has made many comfoi table who before were
veriest slaves. He has been too busy with
the welfare Of his people even to think of
self. His honor has been the honor of useful
ness-not the glory and pomp and circum-
stance of empty reputation"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

exposed to view, has sent us the following
description
1.-THE Erie Basin dry dock at Brooklyn was
crowded with spectators when the Thistle
hoated through the gate. The crowd gradu-
ally increased as the water fell inch by inch
until the beautiful lines of the Scotch boat
were fully exposed to the view of the admir-
ing throng.
Perhaps the most interested man present
was Capt Barr, who, though he had walked
the quarter deck of the Thistle in many
race, had never before seen below her load
water line. The model of the Thistle differs
materially from that of any English yacht
ever sent over to this country There is not
a straight line about her anywhere, and the
way she has been put together is evidence Of
the highest kind of workmanship. The line
where the keel joins the cardboard can hardly
be discerned The only excrescence of any
kind on her hull is the board covering her
channels This will doubtless interfere some-
what with her progress in a rough sea and
when she is by the wind. So graceful and
fine are her lines that much wonder was ex-
pressed that she could carry so much sail,
and the contrast between her heavy spars
aloft and her thin body below was indeed
great.
GAS a matter of fact, however, appearances
about any vessels displacement are nearly
always deceptive. The Thistle's displace-
ment is probably as great as that Of the Gal
atea or Genesta.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30
A Good Old Are.

Long lived heredity is not simply a
physical tendency to live. 1t is also a
tendency to the habits of life, conduct
and thought that preserve constitutional
vigor, and hold in check or eradicate
whatever might hamper natures recuper-
alive power.
This suggests the practical lesson we
would enforce. By the voluntary cult
walton of good habits those who have
reached, say the age of 80, in sound
health, may hepe to live to good and
happy old age. Youths Companion
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

"Perhaps the most remarkable thing about
the Scotch boat was the smoothness of her
bottom, after being under water for over a
month. There was merely the faintest sug-
gestion of grass near her rudder, and I
counted but four diminutive barnacles on one
side. Her bottom was practically as smooth
as when she left the Clyde. She has scarcely
any forefoot las the reader will see by the
cut, and the general opinion was expressed
that this would give her a tendency to swerve
off when she is beating to windward. The
strength in her hull begins abaft the main
mast Her overhang aft is tremendous, being
probably trife less than fifteen feet from
the stern post.
"The depth of her keel is something to be
wondered at 1t resembles huge center
board more than anything else. Her draught
is 1917 feet.
Her frames forward are V ,haped, which
precudes the possibility of any wave line
formation. Going aft she increases in round
ness until the chain plates are reached. Abaft
the chain plates her top sides are quite full.
Her bilges are not sharp, but are curved In
with a delicate sweep"
The measurer of the New York Yacht
club was on hand to take the measurement
of the Thistle. Plumb hobs were SUSPENDED
from tne talIrall aIC 10 tne END OF the golden
thistle which graces the yachts bow. The
distance between the lines of these hobs was
measured on deck. Then the distances from
where the plumb line forward reached the
water to where the water touched the cut
water was measu ed and added to the dis
tance from the contact of the cutwater aft
to the after plumb line. The sum of these
two distances was subtracted from the length
over ALL and that left the length of the water
line Then the length of the shackle ring of
the jib to the leach shackle OF the main
sail was taken for sail length of the boat
The sail height was measured by running a
tape from the topmast sheave to the jaws of
the gatf. The New York Yacht club has
evolved rule by which these lengths and
height are combined and divided in order to
tell in what fraction of second the larger
boat can SAIL or ought to sail, mile faster
than the smaller boat because of its greater
size. This fraction of a second the larger
boat must allow to the smaller one.
The result of the measurement showed that
the Thistle is 2.27 feet longer than the Volun-
teer, and her tonnage A s6-95 greater. The
greatest beam Of the Volunteer is over two
feet more than the Thistle.
By this measurement the Volunteer had to
give the Thistle time allowance of a few
seconds.
The Volunteer lay in dry dock about half
a mile from the Thistle. The contrast between
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30
PRAIRIE ROSES.

A hedge of roses, pink and sweet,
That plant in loan their slender feet,
That send breath the spring to greet
Across a great expanse;
They lean soft cheeks together there,
They smile at love, with faces fair
What keeps the sunshine glinting nearf
Young love, perchance.
A hedge grown dim with autumn's haze,
Tendrils that cling in loving maze,
Through drear, or cold, or cloudy days;
Across the great expanse
Comes on the fierce September sun,
When rosy flush and perfumes done;
The rays the faded flowers shun
Without glance.
Oh, homely loves that clasp her round,
May you enough for her be found
Qike sister roses on one mound
Amid great expanse)-
May no gay wooer ask smile
Too lightsome wight with winsome VILE
But gaining love to hold awhile
Then lose, perchance.
Eli Shepherd in Boston Transcript
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

studying such por-
tons Of the Federal
machinery of the
United States as
bear directly upon
the home rule ques-
ton, was born in
Newry,in the north
of Ireland, fifty
four years ago, was
graduated ut Trim
ity college, Dublin.
and was called to
the bar in London
in 1859. In a very
few years he had
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

you have the corporeal presence of Illinois
capital representative. He looks quite too
good natured for the business he is in, but he
stirs witness up occasionally, all the same.
To his right sits the soft voiced blonde
Hon. E. Ellery Anderson of New York city,
who does the questioning for the commission.
His manner Of opening the attack on any
special = int is extremely deferential, the
very height of courtesy: but at about the
seventh question he has the witness in a
corner, as it were. At the head of the table
sits Ex-Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the commissions; and nature
could scarcely have formed more striking
contrast than that between him and Mr..
Anderson, for the governor is a very dark
brunette-dark as the typical Spanard of
Andalusia. Hair, beard and eyebrows are
of a dead black; but, like the other two men,
bers, he has the size. In fact, a striking
feature Of the whole affair is the bigness of
the participants-there are no little men in
the business, and Mr.. Huntington, the
champion witness, is apparently the biggest
and most imposing of the lot In size and
general make up he bears a curious resem-
blance to the late Brigham Young, except
that he lacks that heavy under jaw and
pulled lip which gave the Mormon chiefs
face a suggestion of grossness.
Mr.. Huntington is the center of attraction,
and at times is noticeably nervous, mani
| festation which causes a smile among the OBJ
servers. Nobody laughs at little thin fellow
for being nervous-we expect it of him; but
when a great mass Of blood and BRAIN Drawn
and healthy flesh like this fidgets like a
schoolboy or slightly reddens as budding
maiden, there is a comical contradiction be-
tween the subject and the action. And just
in proportion as he gets excited lie forgets his
grammar; provincaisms of his Connecticut
boyhood come out, and he tells what ''we
done and why we done it," or "guesses the
commission will have to go to the documents
for that" But in one part of his testimony
on the day the writer was present he became
highly Enthusiastically thrilling. That
was when lie told of his experience with the
wild Indians of Nevada: how Winnemucca
could rally 5000 warriors; how his band had
defeated the soldiers and killed Us persons at
Big Meadow; how he and the Central Pacific
made special treaty with Winnemucca,
gave him special car free, carried his peo-
pie free on the freight trains, and how all
this produced a lasting peace with those Indi-
ans, till now the sage brush plains of Nevada
were as safe as the Mohawk vale and in
fair way to blossom as the rose. In short
Mr. Huntington waXed so eloquent in various
statements of what he had done for his coun-
try and his fellow citizens, that it was actu-
ally pathetic; and one felt for the time that
the prosecuted patriot should be dismissed
with pension.
He had just got warmed up in his first di-
erosion of this nature when Gen. Grenvlle
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

HE mystery Of the
T b / S ties hull,
which for a long
time was the top
most topic in yacht
II g circles, was
cleared up some
days before t b g
first of the big
races, W h en- tn g
Scotch boat W as
locked.
A New York cor
re SIP ondent who
was on the dry
dock where t h Q
Thistle lay as her
lines were slowly
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

The jubilee will have an exhibit of all the
products Of the surrounding territory.
Cereals and vegetables from below well as
above the earth will be displayed. Besides,
they will have no end of bands of music, mil
itary drills, street illuminations and every
gorgeous thing to be thought Of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30
IN A DRY DOCK.
SOME INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS
ABOUT THE YACHT THISTLE.

Her Lines of Beauty as They Appeared
to New York Correspondent - Her
Hull Not SO Foul as Was Expected.
Various Notes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30
Sir Charles Russell.

Sir Charles RUSSELL the eminent English
barrister, who is coming to America some
time during the autumn for the purpose of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

NJ. Dodge, the not
ell engineer-in-chief
of the Union Pacif-
ic, entered and took
a seat near him.
Gen. Dodge is I'M
+ a t h er fe e BILE
health; his form,
which was once so
upright at the head
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-30

DIAGRAMS OF THE TWO YACHTS.
the two models was noticeable. The model
of the Volunteer shows great power Her
long floor and powerful bilges are in strong
contrast to the short curved bottom of the
Scotchman. Her plates were put on badly
and her bottom was very rough and required
good deal Of scraping and sand papering.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-19

which # il sind will do his work
The INST ouarters shoe business
shows "a marked Improvement over
the Grstuuartcr ofmSt wear.
y strike occurred in German
manufacturing Il strict for rcdur.
tiou nt hours of labor. which arc
from $3.50 "a. IN. to 1850 y. IN. Indus.
trial agitation- on large scale are
Threatened there because of the in
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-19
\ show ing al Hallway Projected aud
tuuiccturr~ n- {" Possibilities
Thereon

UIU--TIII M n I'M INUWT0T.
81 Lors. April b. Possibly th'
most interesting news one can write
to 'rcNns to-day i- the now rhilr nd
cra To- to- u-hcrcd in. The people re.
4iil. that within the next tire,
months 1cNa. connection with IT
Luui-. Kansas Clty, Chicago nnd th'
great northwest Is to bcmOrc thal
doubled. ~ thW time the 'Fr,c,
wi, running into Paris, and have
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-19

Delivered tally in quantities Of
10 cent, ind upwards eack
cd for shlpmmt. Make season con.
tracts with J,hn Farley.
Workmen's advocate., 1887-02-19
MAlTHUSIAN MOONSHlNE.

Two old hens and a young chicken were living in a one-acre field adjoining farm house. After while another young chicken came to live with them. The two old hens said the young ones must pay them three parts of what they picked up, as they had a right to every thing found in the field, and should have claimed the whole were they not SO kind hearted and charitable. The two young chickens pulled out their handkerchiefs to wipe away the tears of gratitude and cheerfully acceded to the proposal. They adopted the system and it worked excel lently, but after q while the chickens found they had too hard a scrape for a living. So they asked the old hens why they were so poor when they worked so hard and the old hens themselves so rich, although they did nothing "Oh," said the old hens, there's not room in this field for everybody, and we shall always suffer while we are SO overcrowd- ed." The two little chickens thereupon took the hint, and drowned themselves Tn farm house spout; and the two old hens passed a law to prohibit suicide. - Melbourne Liberdtor.
Workmen's advocate., 1887-02-19
CARPENTERS RULES.

The Brotherhood of Carpenters d Joiners in this city have pro- ulgated the following resolutions: 1. That nine hours shall constitute a ys work on and after the first day of y, 1887, to April 1, 1888.
 ,. That from and after said date no 4mber of this union will be allowed to lrk with non-union workmen.
 G That the wages for average men shall S3 per day.
 |. That the minimum wages shall be 70 per day.
 ]. That all overtime for workdays shall at the rate of time and one half, and
 Sunday it shall be double time. The bosses organization was fur 5hed with a copy immediately upon
 adoption, so that they cannot nplain of not receiving three 1nths' notice. The RegiSter pub- hes the rawlings of a boss who nplains that he lost $500 by last r's controversy with the Brother od. It would be well, therefore, to get into a controversy, but to union wages to union men.